PM makes final push to foil Swedish initiative to divide Jerusalem
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are each lobbying European Union foreign ministers to adopt its respective position on Sweden's initiative...
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Christmas decorations can seriously damage your health, Brussels warns
The Independent | Independent | Posted 12.01.2009 | Home
Many Christmas tree lights could cause serious injury or death, according to secret tests revealed today. ...
Baroness Ashton's EU role 'gives Britain a powerful voice'
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home
Gordon Brown insisted tonight that Britain would remain a powerful voice in Brussels after Labour peer Baroness Ashton was appointed as ...
Vanessa Mock: Shadowy race, but with the right result
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home
It is nothing new for the EU to be blasted for being an opaque and shadowy bureaucratic behemoth, but the search for an EU President has triggered so...
Axel Weber: Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis
FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
Axel Weber: Fiscal Policy After the Financial Crisis The global financial crisis has resulted in capitals around the world adopting sizeable fiscal s...
20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain
FORA.tv | FORA.tv | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
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20 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain Twenty years have passed since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The epo...
Irish voters back Lisbon... but what does the treaty actually mean?
The Independent | Independent | Posted 12.03.2009 | Home
Irish voters yesterday delivered a resounding endorsement of the Lisbon Treaty, causing waves of relief and celebration in Brussels and Dublin about ...
Jumpin' Jack Verdi, It's a Gas, Gas, Gas: Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera
Pepe Escobar | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
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Whatever Washington thinks, the Europeans know that energy independence from Russia is, in reality, inconceivable. Bottom line when it comes to natural gas: Europe needs everything.
EU report: Georgian attack started war with Russia
AP | RAF CASERT and DOUGLAS BIRCH | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home
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BRUSSELS — Georgia and Russia both claimed to find vindication in Wednesday's independent report on the causes of their 2008 war, but neither seemed likely to be able to take the moral high ground because of its blunt judgments.
The EU-sponsored report supports Russia's insistence that Georgia launched the short but intense war with an indiscriminate rocket and artillery barrage on the separatist capital of South Ossetia – an act the commission said was not justifiable under international law.
Georgia can find support for its claim that Russia taunted and provoked it for years before the assault, then responded with disproportionate force, sending armored vehicles deep into undisputed Georgian territory.
Russia's retaliation went "far beyond the reasonable limits of defense," the report said, rejecting claims the country was trying to prevent genocide with its invasion of its southern neighbor, a former Soviet nation with fervent hopes of joining the EU and NATO.
The beginnings of the July 2008 war had been murky, its aftermath contentious.
Magritte Painting Stolen At Gunpoint
The Guardian | Angelique Chrisafis | Posted 11.25.2009 | World
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A painting by the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte was stolen from a Brussels museum today in a daring daylight raid by two armed men who rang...
Magritte Painting "Olympia" Stolen By Armed Thieves In Daylight Raid
Times Online | David Charter, Brussels and Nico Hines | Posted 11.24.2009 | World
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Thieves stole a painting by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte today in an armed daylight raid on a museum dedicated to his life and works. ...
Brussels steps in to save the Great Hamster of Alsace
The Independent | Independent | Posted 07.28.2009 | Home
Like a seven-year-old child, the French government faces punishment for failing to look after its hamsters. ...
Mozilla Mauls Microsoft on IE, Windows 7 Bundle
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 06.07.2009 | Home
Microsoft Corp's next version of Windows is stirring fresh complaints of anticompetitive behavior from rivals who say the new version of the operating...
NATO Expels Russian Diplomats
Guardian | Posted 05.31.2009 | World
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A row erupted between Moscow and the west today after Nato expelled from its Brussels HQ two senior Russian diplomats it accused of spying....
Somalia Wants A Coast Guard To Fight Rampant Piracy
AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.23.2009 | World
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BRUSSELS — Somalia's foreign minister urged the international community Wednesday to help its fledgling government set up a coast guard to fight...
Tamil diaspora rises in protest of Sri Lanka conflict
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
Tamils protesting in Brussels. The United Nations has warned of a possible “blood bath” as the Sri Lankan military encroaches on ...
EU Sues UK Government Over Treatment of Phorm
Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.15.2009 | Home
The European Commission began legal action against the U.K. Tuesday over its failure to protect Internet users from Phorm -- a covert behavioral adver...
The G-20 Conference -- Thin Air at the Summit
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.06.2009 | World
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What was missing at the G-20 was a true revolution in the thinking of the global financial and political elites. And that will not happen without either more inspired leadership at the top or more pressure from below.
Iran-NATO Hold First Talks In 30 Years
AFP | Stephanie Lob | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
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Iran and NATO have held their first talks since the Iranian revolution 30 years ago, officials at the military alliance said Thursday, in a new sign o...
Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
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The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...
Clinton In Brussels: Obama Begins Europe Charm Offensive
SPIEGEL | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
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With Hillary Clinton's visit to Brussels, Washington is set to begin its European charm offensive. President Obama and Vice President Biden also plan ...
Czech president compares EU to Soviet Union
AP | CONSTANT BRAND | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
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BRUSSELS — The Czech Republic's leader has long been one of the most strident critics of the European Union, blasting the bloc with withering at...
EU Officials Warn Against US Protectionist "Buy American" Bill
Deutsche Welle | Posted 03.02.2009 | World
The United States will not get away with expanding a "Buy American" protectionist measures as part of its economic rescue plan, European Union officia...
Eleven Other Countries with Big Auto Industry Problems
Steve Parker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
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Here's some of what's happening, mostly with GM, in Europe and Asia, two markets outside the U.S. hit hardest by the slowing automobile business.
Change Heard Round the World
Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 12.21.2008 | Living
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I've never given a presentation in French before -- for 90 minutes, no less! -- and on Belgian radio station RTBF, I had my entire family in the audience to boot.
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